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2022-05-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Vladimir Putin 'will undergo cancer operation in the near future' and is set to 'hand over power to hardline ex KGB chief while he is incapacitated', insider claims
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Russian leader set for surgery, which officials insist is 'of no particular urgency'

  • Power over Ukraine war will transfer to ally and Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev, 70

  • Putin has cancer, Parkinson's and 'schizophrenic symptoms': Telegram channel

  • Patrushev claimed NATO support for Kyiv will cause 'disintegration of Ukraine'

  • News comes as Putin expected to launch all-out assault and mobilise nation
Related: Russia's military 'is furious that Putin has down-scaled Ukraine invasion to focus on Donbas and is calling for all-out WAR'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11168 views ]  Top

#1 But does he need the Easter Bunny to keep him from wandering off into the weeds?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-01 10:09||   2022-05-01 10:09|| Front Page Top

#2 
Posted by Mickey M 2022-05-01 10:40||   2022-05-01 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Troll just said Putin also has AIDS. Pass it on...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-01 10:42||   2022-05-01 10:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Putin has AIDS? Wow.
Posted by Matt 2022-05-01 11:07||   2022-05-01 11:07|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by Mickey M 2022-05-01 11:20||   2022-05-01 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Persuasion via name calling, the Sunday Brunch Edition. My mom is dead. My wife is dead. Thanks for your concern.

It's not my fault you stepped on your dick. Rub some dirt on it and walk it off, tough guy.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-01 11:24||   2022-05-01 11:24|| Front Page Top

#7 How is Russia going to stop the British and French retaliatory strikes from their subs when they can't stop the much less capable Ukranian leftover Soviet rockets from blowing up their oil depots?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-05-01 11:26||   2022-05-01 11:26|| Front Page Top

#8  And God can give you AIDS to you ….or cancer
…. Like President Putin….

How sweet. Since Mr. Mickey M argues that the DailyMail article is a lie — I believe in the trade that’s called unconfirmed RUMINT — he just wished that you don’t get AIDS or cancer.

M. Murcek, that’s what the pros call effective communication.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-05-01 11:53||   2022-05-01 11:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey Mickie, are we supposed to read Pravda?
Posted by Jatle Sinatra9653 2022-05-01 12:08||   2022-05-01 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ No. He would like us to be Pravda.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-01 12:08||   2022-05-01 12:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe we should read WAPO? Ick.
Posted by Jatle Sinatra9653 2022-05-01 12:13||   2022-05-01 12:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Maybe Daily Mail gets too close to the truth for some people's comfort.
Posted by Jatle Sinatra9653 2022-05-01 12:15||   2022-05-01 12:15|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm sure Big Sister at DHS will send the Real Word™ down from on high soon.

Which will be fun.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-01 12:15||   2022-05-01 12:15|| Front Page Top

#14 
Posted by Pink Charlie Sperens6603 2022-05-01 17:35||   2022-05-01 17:35|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ The Daily Mail presents US domestic news in a way very few national news outlets do. Most national outlets over the years have chosen sides on the political divide, making them unreadable.

The Daily Mail is shrill, coarse, and often humorous. It is, as the dateline suggests, where America gets its news.

But there's good news: if you have a better source or article, you can post it yourself. We don't mind, really.
Posted by badanov 2022-05-01 18:13||   2022-05-01 18:13|| Front Page Top

#16 Sunday Sport could have been a contender for demonstration of my linking skills, but alas is no more.
Posted by Bertie dm Tramp 2022-05-01 20:12||   2022-05-01 20:12|| Front Page Top

#17 
Posted by Mickey M 2022-05-01 20:37||   2022-05-01 20:37|| Front Page Top

#18  We don't mind, really.

We’re always pleased to get better sources. So long as the source really is better, that is either more insightful or closer to the geography and players in question.

It’s true that some things tagged as War on Terror are not directly jihadi or anti-jihadi action. Narco gangs and migrant/illegal adventures, for example. But over the past three or four decades the narco gangs of Latin America and the khat/captigon/opium smugglers of the Middle East and North Africa have formed business partnerships bolstered by intermarriage with several of the major jihadi franchises. Off the top of my head, so you’ll want to check: Hezbollah with the Iran Revolutionary Guard and separately Al Qaeda in Latin America, shipping primarily cocaine and some marijuana north to the U.S. and east via North Africa to Europe; Al Qaeda in the Maghreb shipping Afghan opium and heroin across North Africa west to Europe and farther west to the U.S., and on the return trip shipping Latin American cocaine and marijuana north into Europe. Separately, the Houthis in Yemen and Al Shabaab in Somalia have the khat trade, supplying their compatriots in Europe and America, and ISIS along with loads of amateurs make and sell captagon across the Arab Middle East.. So keeping track of key narco gangs is another WoT play.

Then there are the huge flows of illegal migrants and asylum seekers to Western Europe and the U.S./Canada. While nominally fleeing ISIS rampaging across Iraq and Syria in 2015, it quickly became clear that most were not innocents fleeing depredations, but those who wanted to take advantage of Western generosity, those who saw themselves as colonizing the West for Islam, and thousands of trained jihadis hidden among them to prepare for major terror attacks. The recent trials in Paris and Brussels of members of the huge cell that staged multiple nearly-simultaneous attacks on the Bataclan theater among others in November, 2015 brought out that quite a few members blithely travelled around Europe and back and forth to the ISIS caliphate that sprawled across the border between Iraq and Syria buried in the flow of so-called asylum seekers. So keeping track of asylum seekers/migrants highlights ratlines connecting various nests of jihadis in the West, including Australia.

The Black Bloc or anarcho-communist syndicalists of Antifa, et al are a bit more of a reach, but the red Communist totalitarians and the green Moslem totalitarians support each other as each plans to take advantage of the successes of the other.

But most of the America stuff is on Page 3: Non-War on Terror and Page 6: Seedy Politics. So if you stick to pages 1 (WoT), 2 (WoT Background/Politics), and 4 (Opinion), you should be able to avoid exposure to most of the things you dislike.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-05-01 21:07||   2022-05-01 21:07|| Front Page Top

#19 Incidentally, the Daily Mail and Breitbart are two of our go-to sites for jihadi news in Europe, Britain, Australia and the U.S. The New York Post is another consistent source. If you have better sources for those regions, or want to improve our coverage in those areas by scouring our usual sources instead of waiting for us to do so, please have at it. Rantburg is a group project, Pink Charlie Sperens6603, as you know since you’ve watched regular commenters submitting articles from their particular areas of interest over the past two decades.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-05-01 21:28||   2022-05-01 21:28|| Front Page Top

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